Kids suffering from nearsightedness can slow the progression of their myopia by using soft bifocal contact lenses, a new trial shows. Bifocal contacts with a powerful corrective prescription slowed ...

The results of a new clinical trial may provide more hope for children with myopia, commonly known as nearsightedness. The study found that kids as young as 7 who regularly wore powerful bifocal ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . In the CONTROL study, distance center bifocal contact lenses offered greater control over myopia progression and ...

Today’s featherweight plastic contact lenses are invaluable to many nearsighted and farsighted people. But those who need bifocal correction still cannot use them. Reason: it is useless to place a ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio – Young nearsighted kids who wear bifocal contact lenses that slow uncoordinated eye growth do not lose the benefits of the treatment once they stop wearing the lenses, new research ...

If you’re new to contact lenses, you may have questions about how to wear and care for them. It may not be as simple as slipping on a pair of eyeglasses. And it may take longer to get used to them.

Children wearing multifocal contact lenses had slower progression of their myopia, according to new results. The findings support an option for controlling the condition, also called nearsightedness, ...

Richard Camp, a longtime Houston optician who developed an early bifocal contact lens, died Wednesday. He was 82. A native of Greenville, S.C., he moved to Houston in the late 1940s, where he operated ...

According to a clinical study funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH), multifocal contact lenses were able to slow down and control the worsening of nearsightedness in children. Multifocal ...